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Novaya Gazeta Europe
05-07-2025
- Politics
- Novaya Gazeta Europe
At least four dead in overnight Russian airstrikes on eastern Ukraine — Novaya Gazeta Europe
Ukrainian rescuers fight a fire following a Russian drone strike on the Kharkiv region city of Chuhuiv, Ukraine, 5 July 2025. Photo: State Emergency Service of Ukraine. The Russian military launched a barrage of fresh airstrikes on cities in Ukraine's eastern Kharkiv region overnight on Friday, killing at least one person in the city of Kupyansk and injuring 15 others across the region, Kharkiv Governor Oleh Synyehubov announced on Saturday. The attack, which, according to Synyehubov, comprised at least 25 Iranian-made Shahed drones, 12 unguided aircraft missiles, and 6 cruise missiles, caused widespread damage to civilian infrastructure, and was part of a larger overnight attack on Ukraine. The Ukrainian Air Force reported on Saturday that in total Russia had launched 322 drones at targets in the country, primarily targeting western Ukraine's Khmelnytskyi region, 292 of which were shot down or intercepted. Elsewhere in Ukraine, at least three civilians were killed and another 22 injured over the past 24 hours, according to reports from regional governors. In eastern Ukraine, Donetsk Governor Vadym Filashkin announced that two civilians had been killed and four wounded in Russian airstrikes on the region on Friday, while in southeastern Ukraine, Zaporizhzhia Governor Ivan Fedorov reported that a guided aerial bomb had killed an 84-year-old man in the city of Vasylivka. In an attack that was primarily concentrated on regions bordering Ukraine in western and southwestern Russia, 94 Ukrainian drones were intercepted overnight on Friday, according to the Russian Defence Ministry. No casualties were reported, although NASA's global fire monitoring system detected a blaze near the Borisoglebsk military airfield in western Russia's Voronezh region, according to breaking news Telegram channel ASTRA. Later on Saturday, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirmed a 'successful' strike on the airfield, claiming that Ukrainian drones had hit a warehouse storing guided aerial bombs and training aircraft. 'The Defence Forces continue to take all measures to undermine the capabilities of the Russian occupiers to strike civilian infrastructure and force Russia to cease its armed aggression against Ukraine,' it said.
Saba Yemen
30-05-2025
- Politics
- Saba Yemen
Eight people injured in Russian drones attack
Kyiv - (Saba): At least eight people were injured in an attack by Russian drones on the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. The military governor of the Kharkiv region, Oleh Synyehubov, explained via Telegram that the attack resulted in eight injuries, including two young men. In the same context, Igor Terekhov, the mayor of Kharkiv, said that the attack targeted "one of the municipal institutions" in the city, using at least eight combat drones, without revealing the nature of the facility or revealing further details. He added that the attack caused a large fire at the targeted site, while extinguishing operations and initial damage assessments are ongoing. Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, has witnessed an escalation in the pace of Russian attacks in recent weeks, amid ongoing military operations since the outbreak of the conflict on February 24, 2022. Whatsapp Telegram Email Print
Al Jazeera
08-04-2025
- Politics
- Al Jazeera
Ukraine detains suspected Russian assassin
Ukraine has arrested and indicted a man accused of assassinations and blowing up buildings on orders from Russia. The Ukrainian prosecutor general's office said on Tuesday in a statement that the suspect is accused of murdering a Ukrainian soldier and plotting the assassination of officials. The arrest comes amid an apparent uptick in targeted attacks on Ukrainian officials and public figures, including a local lawmaker who was killed by a car bomb on Friday in the city of Dnipro. The prosecutor general's office said under the orders of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), the 56-year-old from the Crimean Peninsula, reportedly a persistent offender over many years, shot a Ukrainian soldier dead in March 2024. Prosecutors have also accused the suspect of planting an explosive under the car of Vyacheslav Zadorenko. However, the Kharkiv official spotted the bomb, 'saving his own life', they said in the statement. The suspect was also allegedly tasked with killing the head of the Kharkiv region, Oleh Synyehubov, for a reward of $50,000. He also planted and set off explosives at strategically important buildings in the northeastern city of Kharkiv, the statement added. Russia and Ukraine have targeted one another's officials in assassination plots since Moscow's invasion in February 2022. Ukrainian counterintelligence investigators claimed last May to have foiled a Russian plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as well as the heads of Ukraine's military intelligence agency and the SBU security service. Zelenskyy has said there had been numerous attempts to assassinate him since the start of the war with Russia, which has now stretched into a fourth year. The FSB did not comment on Kyiv's claims regarding the suspect.
